Movers and Shakers
February 2023
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CENTRAL
Amina Dammann is now a partner in and Austin Evans and Caitlyn Ozier are now of counsel to King & Spalding in Austin.
GULF
Peter Berg, Igor Gorlach, and Abby Parsons are now partners in King & Spalding in Houston.
Sy Polky and Alejandra Salinas are now partners in Susman Godfrey in Houston.
Teresa Hudson is now a principal attorney with Munck Wilson Mandala in Houston.
D.J. Beaty, Valisa Berber-Thayer, and Garrett S. Martin are now partners in Haynes and Boone in Houston.
Leonard Wood is now partner in and Chris Folmsbee is now counsel to Sidley Austin in Houston.
Catherine Curtis, previously with Pulman, Cappucio & Pullen, is now special counsel to McGinnis Lochridge in Houston.
Ross Staine is now a partner in Baker McKenzie in Houston.
Alexandre Afanassiev and Ross Miller, previously senior associates of Gonzalez Olivieri in Houston, are now partners in the firm’s Houston office.
NORTH
Nate Christensen is now of counsel to Foley & Lardner in Dallas.
Hon. Emily Miskel, previously of the 470th District Court in McKinney, has been appointed to the 5th Court of Appeals in Dallas by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Brent Beckert, Zach Burnett, Tiffany Cooke, Natalie DuBose, Christopher Konopka, Mike A. McArthur, Taryn McDonald, Chase A.M. Proctor, Matt S. Stewart, and Scott Thompson are now partners in Haynes and Boone in Dallas.
Dennis Conder established Conder Mediation, 12222 Merit Dr., Ste. 1200, Dallas 75251.
Alexis Gebhardt, previously with Seltzer, Dally & Webb, is now an associate of Mims Ballew Hollingsworth in Southlake.
Tanner Bodine, Stas Getmanenko, and Jessica Greenwald are now partners in Baker McKenzie in Dallas.
Mason Parham and Natali Wyson are now partners in and Andrew Langford is now counsel to Sidley Austin in Dallas.
OUT OF STATE
Sean O’Connell is now a shareholder in Baker Donelson in Washington, D.C.
Raymond Van Dyke, of Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law in Washington, D.C., has been appointed senior vice president of special events for the Licensing Executives Society. TBJ
